I'd recently read (in Previews) that Young Justice was going to dump Superboy into Skataris in its thirteenth issue, and that Mike Grell was going to be involved, so I made a mental note to check that title in February, when The Blessed Event would happen. But I get a little bit jumpy, so when I saw issue #11 on the stands, I picked it up for a look-see. And I flipped through the pages until, quite near the end...
A glimpse of The Warlord. Not a Mike Grell glimpse, but still...you know. It's been a little while. So for those of you who share my passion for Mike Grell's "I'm Much Tougher Than David Innes" Hero, you might want to pick this one up. And if I know my comic books, I'd bet that we'll get another glimpse of The Man in issue #12...which will be along in January. And then in February, we get The Full Monty:
(That's the alternate Mike Grell cover, so I guess I'm going to be at the comic book store on Wednesday of that week, because I don't want to take a chance on missing out on that one.)
And for Young Justice #11? Well, it was written by
Brian Michael Bendis, who is not my favorite guy these days. I find his dialogue to be tedious and affected, as well as confusing. Granted, this is part 5 of the "Lost in the Multiverse" story, so some confusion is inevitable given that context, but even so...I really couldn't even follow this thing from panel to panel at times. I kept trying alternate ways to read the page, and found that none of them seemed any better than another. That's not a good sign. The art was pretty okay. Nothing spectacular, nothing I'd stop to look at otherwise, but competent and not ugly, which makes it head and shoulders above 80% of the books on the stands these days.
So I'd say you should only buy this one if you're a really devoted The Warlord fan. But you might want to keep your eyes out for #12, just to be sure. And most certainly for #13.
Peace out.
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